Animal draft equalizer



'June 24,1930.

P.M.HODGE ANIMAL DRAFT EQUALI 2ER ATTORNEY Peieiaea June 24,1930 l l 1,766,384 l unirse srATEs vppii'rlala'r'-.orriclu PEARLEM. Hopen or BARNs'roN, NEBRASKA ANIMAL DRAFT EQUALIZER Application' mea Mei-c1171, 1929. serial No. 343,660.

This invention more particularly relates 16, ispivotally mounted upon the outermost to draft appliances adapted for use upon end of the three horseV evener 18 and having agricultural implements and the like. l single trees 21 upon the ends thereof.y A sin- An object of the invention comprises an gle tree. 22 is adaptedy for connection'with evener bar having Single, trees and whiilie the opposite end of the three horse evener 18 50 trees connected therewith. whereas single trees 23 are carried upon the Another object of the invention compreends ofthe whiflie tree 16. hendsk a supporting bar upon the implement An equalizer bar 24, eccentrically mounted, tongue and eccentrically mounting the sinas indicated at 25, uponthe upper side of the `gle and whiflie trees thereon.` f tongue 10 behind the whiile tree 16,isadapt 55 An additional object of the invention coneCl fOr. COHHGCOD at S lOIlgGl' @11d With theI sists in the provision of an equalizer barV pivot connection k17 for the whiffle tree 16 adapted to equalize the draft. between the upon the longer end of the evenerbar 14 single and whifiie trees. ,t through the instrumentality of aconnecting lVith the above and other objects in view, link 26 e .Y ce

the invention further consists in the follow- A relatively `long connectlng link 27v is ing novel features and details of construction, adapted to establish the means ofconnection to be hereinafter more fully described, illusbetween the shorter end 0f the evener bal' trated in the accompanying drawing and and the pivot connection 19 for the three 2o pointed out in the appended claim. horse evener 18 upon the shorter end of the g5 In the drawing Y evener bar14e. n Figure 1 is a topv plan view of the inven- From the foregoing descriptionand'accom- Y tion. panying drawing, it is noted that the horses Figure 2 is a front Velevation thereof, having connection with thelsingle trees 23 Referring to the drawing in detail, whereand roperating from and upon the longer ends 70 in like characters of reference denote correvof both the evener and equalizer ybars will di'-` spending parts, the reference character 10 rect the draft up'onthe" three horseshaving indicates the tongue of wagon 'or implement, connection with the single trees 21 and 22 not shown. A'supporting bar 11, successive- The liVe'IllOIl iS SUSCIQPM@ 0f VdiOUS 3o ly offset, as at 12 and 13, adjacent one'end, changes in itsform, proportions and minor 75 -V are adapted to be secured to one side and details ofconstructio-n,*and the right is here` bottoni of the tongue 10, substantially as il-V in reservedto make such changes as proper- K lustrated in Figure 2 of the drawing. An `ly'fall within the scope of the appended evener bar 14, pivotally and. eccentrically claim. f l mounted, as lindicated at 15, upon Vthe oppo- Having thus described the invention, what Va0 site endV of the supporting bar11, is adapted is-claimed is:'-- f Y w -to dispose the longer end thereof toward and A draft equalizercomprising a supporting above the tongue 10. A Whiiile tree 16is pivbarv having'- connection at one endV and pro-d Y otally mounted, as at 17, upon the upper side jecting laterally of a vehicletongue, an even- -V 4o of the longer end of the evener'bar Whereas er bar pivotally and eccentrically mountedse a three horse evener 18 is pivotally mounted, upon the otherlend of the supporting bar havv as indicated at 19, upon the shorter end of ingits longer end extended above said tongue, v the evener bar. '1* a three-horse evener pivotallyand eccentri- An additional whilile tree 20, of proporcally mounted upon the outermost shorter end tions corresponding to that of the whiflie tree of the evener bar havingits longer end eX- 9e tended over the aforementioned extremity of the evener bur, Whiflie trees Carried upon the outermost ends of the evener bar and threehorse evener respectively, single trees for the Whittle trees and longer end of the three-horse evener, and an equalizer 'nur pivotally and eeeentrieally mounted upon the tongue behind the evener bar having linkage connections between the'long and short ends thereof with the evener bar and three-horse evener respectively.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

PEARLE M. HODGE. 

